Re: Mutt Batteries 6TL

From: Bruce Kalin (convoy@mtaofnj.us)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 19:30:29 PST


Art,
If the alternator diodes are going bad will they manifest symptoms other
than drawing current from the batteries? The reason I am asking is that
my truck has recently been drawing down the batteries overnight, which
it never did before. Other than that, I am not having any problems with
it. New batteries were tried, and it still does the same thing.
Bruce

Arthur Bloom wrote:

>You have been incorrectly informed. A defective alternator, military or
>civilian, will draw down a battery. A non-defective one will not.
>The defect is generally shorted diodes. There are several in an alternator.
>If one or more short out, there will be a draw. See an alternator wiring

>diagram, and you will understand why.
>
>apb
>

-- 
Bruce Kalin
East Coast Convoy Coordinator
USMCMTA, MVPA, MTANJ, NCMVPA


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